WASHINGTON—T-Mobile USA Inc. is dominating the Federal Communications Commission’s spectrum auction after three rounds in terms of sheer dollars, with $226.6 million in bids so far. The carrier is the high bidder on 25 spectrum licenses covering 235 million potential customers.Click here for the...
WASHINGTON—The Association of Public-safety Communications Officials endorsed Cyren Call Communications Corp.'s proposal that would set aside 30 megahertz of spectrum in the upper 700 band for a next-generation public-safety network that industry would build and share with first responders. This spectrum is currently slated...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Wireless chipmaker Atheros Communications Inc. announced it has completed its acquisition of Taiwan-based ZyDAS Technology Corp., a developer of wireless local area network chips. Atheros said the move "significantly" enhances its engineering team. The company plans to turn ZyDAS’ former headquarters in...
SEOUL—Mobile entertainment company WiderThan Co. Ltd. reported increased income and revenue for the second quarter. Net income was $4.6 million, more than double the net income of $1.6 million reported during the same period last year. The company logged revenues of $33.1 million, up...
BELLEVUE, Wash.—In a quarter where the carrier transitioned from one-year to two-year service contracts, T-Mobile USA Inc.’s second quarter net customer additions were down and its churn was up. Service revenues were up 18 percent year-over-year, but the carrier’s net income was down by...
Fear not, Mike Dano-ranting fans, your leader has not disappeared, but is only resting so as to return stronger with your beloved ravings about all things wrong in wireless. In the meantime, I have been tapped by the all-powerful-foaming-from-the-mouth-one to handle this week’s edition...
WASHINGTON—South Dakota citizens in November will be able to vote to repeal a 4-percent gross-receipts tax on wireless after the South Dakota Supreme Court last week said the initiative could be placed on the ballot. The decision is a victory for Verizon Wireless, which...
DALLAS—The U.S. mobile video market can’t support all the multimedia networks scheduled to come online in the next 18 months, according to a new report from Parks Associates. The prospects appear bright for Sprint Nextel Corp.’s planned WiMAX network and Qualcomm Inc.’s MediaFlo, according...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.—Sprint Nextel Corp. has made changes to its child-location offering designed to simplify the registration process, make the service available to more families and expand the range of handsets that can be used to locate or be located by the service. The...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—XM Satellite Radio Corp. notched its first deal with a U.S. carrier, teaming with Alltel Corp. to offer 20 channels of commercial-free music. The service, which is available for $8 a month, offers several music genres including pop, alternative, country, hip-hop and...
SAN DIEGO—Wireless handset distribution company InfoSonics Corp. saw its second-quarter profit fall due to stock-option charges. Net income for the quarter was $127,000, down significantly from net income of $408,000 during the same period last year. Excluding the stock-options charges, net income would have...
WESTCHESTER, Ill.—Andrew Corp.’s merger-and-acquisition adventures skidded to a full stop as the company pumped its brakes on potential deals with both ADC Telecommunications Inc. and CommScope Inc.—preferring instead to go it alone. Andrew announced in May a merger with ADC, but this week CommScope...
ESPOO, Finland—Nokia Corp. filed a complaint with the Delaware Court of Chancery over several matters relating to its disputes with Qualcomm Inc., the latest in a series of squabblings between the two companies. The Nokia statement, though brief, raised a handful of issues regarding...
ALEXANDRIA, Minn.—Rural Cellular Corp. said it lost 7,385 customers during the second quarter, which was an improvement compared with the 9,992 customers the carrier lost during the second quarter of 2005. Postpaid customers made up most of the loss with Rural Cellular only showing...
WASHINGTON—T-Mobile USA Inc. led the first round of bidding in the Federal Communications Commission’s auction of advanced wireless services spectrum, placing bids for spectrum that would substantially expand its national footprint. The carrier bid for 20 megahertz of spectrum in each of six regions...
NEW YORK—The broadening investigation into stock-option grants continues to plague wireless as federal prosecutors brought criminal charges against three former executives of Comverse Technology Inc. The criminal complaint, which was unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn, accuses founder and former Chief Executive Officer Kobi...
PLAINFIELD, Ind.—Brightpoint Inc. said it has signed a three-year master services agreement with T-Mobile USA Inc., which calls for its Brightpoint Services L.L.C. business unit to provide all of the carrier’s handset logistics in the United States. Brightpoint said it will offer T-Mobile USA’s...
SAN DIEGO—Wireless Facilities Inc., which designs and manages wireless networks, announced it entered a definitive agreement to acquire Madison Research Corp. WFI said the acquisition would advance its customer footprint within the U.S. Department of Defense, including with the U.S. Army and Air Force...
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Without any fanfare, deservedly, Lucent Technologies Inc. filed a document with the Securities and Exchange Commission stating that once its acquisition by Alcatel Inc. closes, the combined company will be called Alcatel Lucent. The SEC filing contains a letter from Lucent in which...
CHICAGO—U.S. Cellular Corp. released limited operating results for the second quarter, reporting a churn rate that ticked upward and net overall customer activations that were about half of what the carrier achieved during the same period last year—however, the company expects to boost its...
NEW YORK—Sprint Nextel Corp. subscribers will soon be able to tune in to live radio broadcasts of their favorite professional baseball teams straight from their handsets. The carrier unveiled a non-exclusive pact with Major League Baseball Advanced Media to deliver live audio broadcasts of...
EMERYVILLE, Calif.—WiMAX gained another backer as MobiTV Inc. said it will support the wireless broadband technology. The wireless video provider said it has been "investing heavily in research and technology development" for WiMAX, and committed to deploying multimedia services over networks using the technology....
SAN JOSE, Calif.—An e-mail Trojan targeting Research In Motion Ltd. BlackBerry users has been developed and, according to its inventor, will be released into "the wild"—that is, launched in public, not just circulated among hackers—next week. That news has led to new, generic advisories...
NEW YORK—While the full ramifications of Sprint Nextel Corp.’s plan to deploy a WiMAX network remain uncertain, it’s clear that the early winners are Intel Corp., Motorola Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.—while the biggest loser is Qualcomm Inc. and its Flarion Technologies Inc.-developed...
